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Tech / 1st gen iPod touch problem

« on: April 11, 2012, 10:14:20 AM »

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Apr 11 2012, 06:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

First you mention DotMac and then iCloud. While you can force older models of iPhones/iPods/Macs to use the iCloud services, email is one of the least reliable. I have iCal syncing beautifully, but email seems to have stopped working on my older iPhone. Apple has said it does not support these older hardware items on iCloud. Our continued use of them will probably never be reliable/trouble-free/enjoyable. It's called "progress." Frankly, I sometimes get password requests from Mail on my iMac after attempting to access it on the old iPhone. I have, basically, given up email on the iPhone via iCloud even though it is basically just an IMAP server. It obviously is sending hardware info that the iCloud servers don't understand and possibly even block. These are just my anecdotal experiences and personal opinions but I read of similar stories. And I don't have an iPod with which to test/use/experiment.

That is kinda what I thought is happening.  I guess I will have to just update at some point.

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Tech / 1st gen iPod touch problem

« on: April 10, 2012, 11:16:32 PM »

Just about a week ago while at my father-in-laws I tried to download my mail from my .mac (or whatever it is called now) account.  It gave me an error message saying that either my username or password was incorrect.  I just figured it had something to do with my FIL's router and I would just try it again later.  SO I got home and no joy again with the same message.  I used my MacBook and had no problems.  I went to iCloud and was able to log in no problem using the same username and password that the iPod is set up for. It seems that I have no problems anywhere else except the iPod.  I have gone into settings and re-entered the information and I know that it is correct - again no joy.  I reformatted the iPod and entered the new settings from scratch and the problem persists.  I know that the iPod is considered old but I use it all the time for email updates. I just need it to work again.  Any ideas?

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Community / Anniversary

« on: April 06, 2011, 12:51:10 AM »

yes indeed - 40 years is a milestone! congratulations!

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: April 04, 2010, 03:25:50 AM »

Well - I am the proud owner of an afterthemac.com USB wireless adapter.  I purchase the n150 with the base and I am very happy with it. The range on it is incredible and it is much much faster than my airport card ever was.  The software control panel for it is not as nice as the airport and there no status icon in the menu bar so there are a few things that are different enough that I kinda don't really care for. However the overall experience is better than with the airport so I will just have to get used to it.  

The service at afterthemac.com is very good - some of the best I have worked with if a long time.

- It sure is nice to get this PowerBook back running again.

BTW how hot is too hot for the CPU??? I installed this logic board myself and I am a little worried that I may not have put enough arctic silver between the CPU and the heat sink.  Right now my istat widget says it is 112 degrees.

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 30, 2010, 10:30:38 PM »

Thanks Krissel that is good info.

I just ordered the n150 USB wireless adapter from afterthemac.com and I think it will be great. The customer servce is top notch and I can't wait till it gets here. I will keep you all informed when it comes in.

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 29, 2010, 11:47:22 AM »

Thanks Paddy - that USB adapter link is one that I looked at. I am really hoping to find somebody that has an adapter like this and can tell me if they work or not at this point I can't afford to put any more money into this machine if it is not going to do what I need it to do.

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 29, 2010, 05:26:38 AM »

Well Mamamoose's post caused me to rethink the whole dead pram battery thing.  Here is what I know from past research on this battery. As long as the main battery is charged or the AC adapter is plugged in the pram battery does not matter. That being said I have no idea if it is true or not. So I got to thinking that the folks at TS know what they are talking about that is why I am asking the questions I am asking. If it is true that my pram battery is dead then why does the system boot when the airport card is NOT installed and then not boot when the card is installed? So dug out my meter and opened the case top once again, pulled out the little USB card that hoods the PRAM battery and put the probes to it. Well to my surprise it showed the battery at 4.6 v. Not to shabby for a 3.6 v battery that I thought to be dead. I am a little puzzled by this because in the past if I let my main battery go to zero and not have my adapter plugged in then I have to work like mad to get the thing to boot and when it does all the date and time is wrong just as if
the Pram is dead. Now that is a mystery. Although in
my searching I have seen mixed opinions on other forums regarding weather or not the pram battery gets reacharged or not - so maybe it does.

So while I was inside the case I decided to install the old hard drive, the one with Leopard, and the sysem behaved the same way. It would boot fine with the airport card not installed and not boot with it
in.

I guess I may just have to buy a USB wireless adapter and forget about using an airport
card at all. Has anybody used these and if so any recommendations?

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 28, 2010, 08:53:19 PM »

Thanks for the information Krissel. I think this is my problem. I am running 10.4.11. I opened the case on the powerbook (15" not 12")  today to verify that all the cables are connected and they are.  It seems that there is a problem when the airport card is installed take the card out and no problems.  According to all the information you sent me the solution is to update to Leopard.  I do not have leopard so I am out of luck. I had Leopard on it before the replacement of the Logic board and new hard drive and I wanted to stay with Tiger this time because it runs a bit faster and I am becoming more impatient in my old age.  I guess I am just out of luck and may have to upgrade to Leopard.  I can still use my computer but how useful is a laptop that you can't connect to the internet without a cable.

GRRR!

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 28, 2010, 03:47:29 AM »

Thanks Macman this s good stuff. I have had to work the last few days and have no had a chance to do much work on this. However I did discover that it seems to have somehing
to do with the airport card. If I take it out everything boots fine. If I pi
put it in I get the kernal panic. I am planning to open the case
top to see if my ribbon cables are all seated properly or if they are damaged. I have a second card and it has the same result when I install it. I will report back with my findings.

Oh yeah one question. I do not have the original install disk set for this
PowerBook, I got it used and it did not come with them. I do have he hadware test disc that came with an older iBook but somebody told me that these discs are computer specific and only work in the machines they came with. Is that true?

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 25, 2010, 04:01:05 PM »

Yep I agree with the thought of not having a good PRAM battery not being a good thing.  However the problem is a bit more difficult than meets the eye.  In this particular series of PowerBooks the PRAm battery sits inside a "daughter board" which lives on top of the optical drive. ( I think it is just glued there)  The actual battery is a coin battery and is no longer made and even when it was I am told that it was not sold separate from the daughter board. SO you can can get them now but they are, at last check, $99 and they are at least 4 to 5 years old. So it is highly possible that you could buy a dead one anyway.  There is a way to get 3 batteries that are similar in size and when stacked up equals the proper power rating needed but I forget what the model number are for the three batteries needed are. I plan to research this and try this fix once I get it figured out.

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 25, 2010, 02:45:29 PM »

Hi Paddy

It is good to be back.  I have been thinking about it for a while but you know how it goes - once you get a problem it helps to get me motivated to come back and see whats up.

Yes - I did some searching and found that it is a Kernal Panic.  I do believe it is the correct logic board.  I got it from a Mac repair guy in Seattle that I have used for other sources and have had friends send their stuff to him and buy other Mac gear from him. He is very good at what he does and I trust him. However it is a used board and there could be a problem.  I did not put in new RAM and the Hard Drive is new and not used.  I did run Disk Utility on it and it came back normal.  I decided to reformat it and plan to try a new install of Tiger later today.  I do know that the PRAM battery is dead and my buddy did not have any in stock so I did not replace that.  I was wondering if there might be a problem with data in PRAM not matching up with what it remembers the old LBoard to be. (ie serial number and such)  

I will let you know how the second OS install goes.

Thanks!

Bill

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Tech / You need to Restart your computer

« on: March 25, 2010, 01:52:49 PM »

Hi There -

First of all - long time no see! I have been away for a while because of some life issues and just kinda fell out of touch with my normal routine.  But I am trying to get back to some sort of normal life again.  I always loved to come here to read up and see what everybody was doing and to lend a helping hand if I could.

Now on to my problem!

I have a PowerBook 1.25 with 1.5 gigs of RAM.  The video chip went out on the Logic board and I was able to get a different board and installed it last night.  It was intimidating at first but actually it was pretty simple. Everything went great and I also installed a new Hard Drive (250 gig). Once all the new goodies were installed I put in the Tiger install disc and then installed the OS and all went as expected.  I rebooted and then welcome sequence ran through and I started answering the new computer questions and then the screen flickered and turned gray with a dark gray box came up that said I needed to restart, this was restated in about 4 other languages in the same box. I restarted three times and it kept coming up to this same screen. SO I put the Tiger disk back in and it runs fine off of the that disc.  I am not sure what I did or what the problem might be. Has anybody here had this problem?

Thanks for any help.

Bill

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2008 / de-authorized and iTunes

« on: September 01, 2008, 08:03:48 PM »

Thanks everybody,

Your information was very helpful.  My question was based on bad information given to me by a friend. He told me that once you authorize 5 computers you are done and have to create another account.  I did not think that sounded right but wanted to make sure.

Bill

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2008 / de-authorized and iTunes

« on: August 31, 2008, 05:59:11 PM »

OK I have a new-to-me PowerBook G4 and so I have had to authorize another computer out of my limit of 5. The first was my desktop, the second was my iBook which was stolen when my car was stolen a couple years ago. The third was my son's iBook which he has let me use for the last two years.  Now I want to de-authorize the two iBooks.  Is there anyway to do that and gain back the two authorize slots?

Bill

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2008 / iTunes Library on an external HD

« on: August 13, 2008, 05:51:28 PM »

Very cool - Thanks!